Erik and Scott: Crescent Creek Heroes Double Interview.

I have Erik and Scott from the Crescent Creek Series for a double interview.

Erik is the Hero from She Came with the Tide. Impulsive, fearless, and fun loving, Erik had lived the rock & roll life fully and with gusto until it wasn’t fun anymore. Without a second thought, he’d traded the spotlight with the Floridian sun, and the guitar with a surfboard. Young, rich, and free from anything – what more he could need?

Scott is the hero from All Those Miles I Walked. Almost Erik’s opposite, Scott is always been steady as a rocky reef. He’d loved once and when she’d left, his strong heart had crumbled like a sandcastle. Now DJ is back, and Scott is stuck with her. Even worse, she still gets under his skin.

Today they agreed to sit here with me so I’ll be spending some time with two beautiful men. Well, at least Scott is sitting with me right now, so it’s one beautiful man at the moment. We’re at Crescent Creek Tiki Bar waiting for a ten-minutes-late Erik

“You know him,” Scott tells me, sipping at his beer. “He has issues with being on time. It drives me half insane.”

(Scott is involved with Erik’s impending wedding, a/n). “And you, like me, like punctuality,” I point out.

“I do. Especially if it’s work related. I mean, I am making dinner for a whole town. It doesn’t just happen out of nowhere, and the guy just says “relax, man”.”

Because I know Scott, I’m can’t help but poke a bit into things he’s not comfortable talking about. “Soooo,” I tell him. “What happens after Erik’s wedding?”

He smiles, just a quirk of his lips, his voice quiet like a Sunday morning. “You know the answer already.”

“I do, but I’d still like to talk about it.”

“Because you haven’t been a pain in my butt enough as it is.” He shrugs, wriggles into a more comfortable position in the chair. “All right, I’m game. After Erik’s wedding I, DJ and our families will drive down to the Keys and get married.”

“Excited?”

“Happy. Us was more than twelve years in the making. We are finally there.”

“And it feels…” I leave it to him to finish my sentence.

“It feels right. We’ve always loved each other.”

“Do you think you’re perfect for each other, too?”

“Oh God, no. We’re all wrong. But we both are more than willing to work for it. Hey man,” he says when Erik sits with us. “You’re late.”

I really have to give him a bit of hard time. A man who looks like him, and smiles like him, definitely needs to be given a bit of hard time. “I like punctuality, in case you forgot. We have work to do.”

“I know, I just had to–”

I swipe at the air, dismissing him. “Forget it. Let’s get down to business. Ready?”

Scott. “Yes, ma’am.”

Erik. “Fire it up.”

Okay. What kind of impression do you make on people when they first meet you? Is that accurate?

Scott. “That I’m serious and my way is the only way.”

Erik. “Which is totally not you.”

Scott barely pays him a sideway glance and shrugs. “There might be some truth in it.”

Erik, what about you?’

Erik: “That I’m a child in a man’s boy. And it’s unapologetically true. Not all of it, but true.”

What would you change about Andrea and DJ?

Erik: Believe it or not, sometimes she’s too cynical. I wish she could believe in a bit of magic. But we’re working on that.

Scott: I’m trying to have DJ answering to that stupid phone.

Still trouble with that?

Scott: Always. You’d say that now that she’s pregnant she’d change that but no. Not her.